I'm working on a fairly large board (at least I think it's big - not sure how PCB considers it). The schematic is hierarchical, if that matters. PCB version 20081128, GTK version. Although the annotation portion is not quite finished, I wanted to see how it looked so far. There are over 2000 parts, give or take, in the layout. I can load the layout in and get all the components on the screen (when the board area is set big enough). I can load the netlist from the menu, but when I try to optimize, the program bombs out with segmentation fault.
The first time I ran the gsch2pcb, I made a mistake and only a couple of parts got included. Fixed the mistake and ran it again, creating a .new.pcb file. Loading that brought the program to it's knees, You can see it trying to paint the screen, but it's painfully slow. The cross-hairs simply can't keep up with the mouse. I'm assuming the buffer being so full has something to do with it. There was a thread just recently talking about speed fixes and similar behavior. One last thing - is it possible to load all the parts into the work area but not located on the board itself? Now that I think of it, maybe the correct method is to make a large area, disperse all the parts, then draw an outline layer that represents the actual board. Is the accepted method? gene _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user